Journal of Stroke
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The Journal of Stroke (JoS) offers clinicians and researchers working in stroke-related fields with peer-reviewed articles on clinical and basic investigation of cerebral circulation and associated diseases for enhancing patient management, education, clinical or experimental research, and professionalism.
Journal of Stroke
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Background and Purpose To evaluate whether the thrombus enhancement sign (TES) can be used to differentiate embolic large vessel occlusion (LVO) from in situ intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS)-related LVO in the anterior circulation of patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Methods Patients with LVO in the anterior circulation who underwent both non-contrast computed tomography (CT) and CT angiography and mechanical thrombectomy were retrospectively enrolled. Both embolic LVO (embo-LVO) and in situ ICAS-related LVO (ICAS-LVO) were confirmed by two neurointerventional radiologists ..read more